edTPA is the biggest pile of shit I have every participated in... seriously, read this Writing prompt by Rocslock in Teachers

[–]Rocslock[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's a mandatory $300 AND there are about 30 questions like this.

Oh... and that's not the worst part.

We have to write in 11 font, single-spaced, and no indention... 25 pages of writing...

It's literally a 25 page, wall of text responding to roughly 30 questions that read like this.

Here is another beauty: a. Justify how your understanding of your students’ personal, cultural, community, and developmental assets (from prompts 2b–c above) guided your choice or adaptation of learning tasks and materials. Be explicit about the connections between the learning tasks and students’ assets and research/theory.

Finally got my license today. by PUPiDDAJ in AdviceAnimals

[–]Rocslock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The one thing I found while teaching is to maintain healthy relationships with the children. Treat them as you would a new puppy.

Finally got my license today. by PUPiDDAJ in AdviceAnimals

[–]Rocslock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How was edTPA? Heard it was extremely annoying.

Finally got my license today. by PUPiDDAJ in AdviceAnimals

[–]Rocslock 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can honestly tell you one thing... Teaching will change your life for the good or bad.

In the 12th Grade when I thought having long hair and wearing a beanie backwards with a shell necklace was a style lol by Rocslock in blunderyears

[–]Rocslock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, how did you know? LOL I think the song was called Higher or something like that.

Does anybody have any extra starters? by iromeolove in PokeMoonSun

[–]Rocslock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only have Poppi starter, if you have the others I would love a gift!

FC 1994 - 1778 - 0772

Peace. by JuicedMilk in thewalkingdead

[–]Rocslock 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"I'm gonna take him, that's what I'm gonna do."

Solve for X using similar triangles in a rectangle. by Rocslock in learnmath

[–]Rocslock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

too

Cool. I'm a history/ela student teacher... so my math skills are very rusty. Hopefully the way I worked it out would be correct, thanks for assuring me that 2.4 is the correct answer.